Biography

Reeni Abraham has trained and practiced in a myriad of locales including the Texas/Mexico border, the Bronx, and in socialized New Zealand. Practicing and learning medicine in such disparate environments served to underscore the importance of seeking to empathically understand each patient’s narrative and their social context as equally as elucidating their underlying diagnosis. Even so, her most powerful medical lessons have come not as a caregiver, but at the bedside.

Prioritizing quality healthcare is multi-faceted and requires our education system to rethink how we teach healthcare delivery and how we role model professionalism. Many of her medical education endeavors have focused on teaching and role modeling patient-centered care and communication for her trainees. To that end she has worked as a perioperative specialist coordinating the care of patients with many co-morbidities across healthcare systems to ensure a safe outcome, and most recently she has focused her clinical effort as an academic hospitalist at both Clements University Hospital and Parkland Hospital and a palliative care physician at Parkland Hospital.

She currently serves as the UT Southwestern Internal Medicine Clerkship Co-director and a Colleges Mentor, where her passions are creating a safe learning environment in which our learners continually strive to grow in the application of evidence-based medicine, aspire to view medicine from their patients’ perspectives with empathy and embed reflection into their daily practice.

Education

Medical School

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (2003)

Residency

Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2006), Internal Medicine

Publications

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